General CommentThis just reminded me a lot of the book Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury). Pretty much line for line. So that would make this about dystopian society.. a society that believes it is perfect (utopian) but really has certain fatal flaws that go almost completely unnoticed.

Lets see.. the people referred to are depressed, yet believe they are happy. An extreme number of people are committing suicide. Those that are alive are more like shells, animals, dead people than someone alive. And their society is completely controlled.. nothing is left optional and no one is given much choice in their life.

General CommentThis is from the linear notes in the re-release of Slaughter of the Soul...meaning behind Suicide Nation:

"What I was trying to say in this track was basically that you're never safe in the throwaway society of today. Either you are trapped under its speeding wheels or consumed in the excess of it... Does Sweden really have the highest suicide rate in the world? I'll be damned if I know... the sound of the gun being loaded at the start of the track is stolen from 'Reservoir Dogs', we were always big film freaks..."